Dear Ace: What is your rule of thumb?—Digit Bardot Digit: As much as Ace loves to talk about himself (and does so, on occasion), he fears his paltry answer would leave you, dear reader, feeling a bit slighted. So, in an effort to avoid wasting perfectly good column inches, perhaps the bigger question should be: […]
• Click here for Brendan Fitzgerald’s interview with Andy Friedman. The last year was a rough one for urban cowboys in New York City. First, Robert “The Naked Cowboy” Burck sued Mars Incorporated, manufacturer of M&Ms, after a blue M&M appeared on billboards similarly dressed in white briefs and a bucket hat. Then, Johnny Utah’s—a […]
This spring, high school athletes in Albemarle County Public Schools will receive a belated Christmas gift from an anonymous donor and county supervisors: state of the art synthetic field turf for the football fields. Thousands of students will walk, run and fall on that surface while playing football, field hockey, soccer or lacrosse. Though each […]
“Unemployment insurance claims can now be filed by telephone. Call 1-866-832-2363. It’s easy, trouble-free and so convenient!” says a flyer advertising the Virginia Employment Commission’s (VEC) filing hotline. I dial. “Due to heavy call volume, wait times will be longer than normal…. To expedite the claim process, you may file your claim online. If you […]
Virginia is one of only two states, along with Kentucky, that do not automatically restore voting rights to felons who have served their time.
After 11 years as the executive director and CEO of UVA’s Patent Foundation, Robert MacWright has resigned.
A late UVA rally kept Virginia Tech’s 78-75 victory in Blacksburg from being a slam dunk, but a loss is still a loss. With conference play now in full swing, UVA men’s basketball team (7-6, 1-1 ACC) has to find some swagger to run with the fast-paced Tar Heels of North Carolina when they […]
In 2005, Ridge Schuyler, then piedmont program director at The Nature Conservancy, was talking to former Albemarle County watershed manager
The following responses are bonus material from this article. C-VILLE: Why should city ratepayers care about restoring the Moormans River? Ridge Schuyler: This is a water supply plan. It’s not a Moormans restoration plan. It meets the 50-year needs of this community, much as the South Fork met our needs for almost 50 years when […]